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Malcolm Palmer is a songwriter based in Chicago. He is a storyteller and social critic whose songs range from emotional character-driven ballads to soulful pleas to charged rock songs to funk and hip-hop influenced grooves. His sound is a familiar, gritty, classic sound that evokes sepia tones, vinyl, and smoke. His lyrics are provocative, sharp, and often chilling. His voice is soft as an angel one moment and dirty as the devil’s the next. His style draws from multiple genres, multiple emotional states, and mixes nature with city.
Between the Womb and the Tomb (orange van records, 2005), is an exploration of folk/hip-hop, if you will, with elements of soul, funk and rock. For Palmer there is an inextricable correlation between folk and hip-hop. He says, “…both are music of the people, for the people… the many neglected, not the few privileged.†This mentality and the record itself have struck a chord with various musical communities and have garnered critical success as well as radio play on over two hundred college stations. Palmer spent much of last year touring from New York to New Orleans to Albuquerque and throughout the Midwest. He and his band are still getting buzz from their performances at SXSW, MidWest Music Summit, SummerFest, Hyperactive Music Festival, SummerCamp, and Diversafest.
Palmer is a prolific songwriter in his prime and his time has come.
Palmer's highly anticipated second release on orange van records will be available spring 2007.
